School of Liberal Art, University of St. Thomas of Houston, Houston, USA.
Blue Therapy to Incapacitate Mosquito-Borne Disease Transmission
Mosquitoes are harmful animals. Each year, they cause illness and death equivalent to the entire three years of the global COVID-19 pandemic: up to 10 million deaths and 700 million illnesses. Mosquito-borne diseases are transmitted from one person to another through mosquito bites and affect 1 out of 11 people on the planet. Without mosquito actual biting, these diseases would not spread. The creatures have eyes with 40,000 lenses but no nose to smell. Instead, they use vision sensitivity to guide them to minuscule holes on the skin of warm-blooded animals that have liquid underneath their skin. And water vapor escaping out is not the same as the tiny foggy droplets liquid water of our breath. Although liquid water is transparent, water molecules reflect blue light. The water vapor makes the environment bluer, enhancing its visibility to the mosquitoes. As a result, female mosquitoes leave nearby humans alone. Baits should be either blue or artificial blue to make the area a mosquito-free zone, the win-win scenarios where people have more comfort and joy to entertain, society has less human suffering and the public with less disease cases to deal with.